I'm a noob and just set-up a linode account to play around with linux development.
I started nginx and made a simple homepage for my domain (giuliopizzini.com).
Today I checked the nginx logs and there is some really weird traffic going on, as if my web server was hit for random websites. I'm attaching Nov 23 logs as an example, but it's the same averyday.

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2. 404 on favico.ico means that your webserver does not have the favicon.ico file available and replies with "404 not found". This is normal and can be fixed by adding a favico.ico file to your webserver document root.

3. "400 Bad Request". This looks like a probing request to see how your webserver replies to this. Usually the webserver only returns "Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand."

4. 5. 6. This is harmless 404 returning from your server. However this seems to be probing for proxy functionality on your webserver.